From my friend Mary Daly...
"I feel deep, deep joy and hope in spite of my tears. God is here.
Something lovely is up. If we could see it, we would smile through our
tears and shake our heads. Someday, we will see, but meantime, give him a
chance. Just a moment; one smile of trust. He is so good a Lord!"
Read the whole thing here...
RIP Charlie
A friend of mine posted this quote from Archbishop Fulton Sheen on Valentine's Day. It seems uniquely appropriate to Charlie's story, as he lived with limited heart function for his whole life (and yet lived a very full and joyous life!):
“The human heart is not shaped like a valentine heart, perfect and regular in contour it is slightly irregular in shape as if a small piece of it were missing out of its side. The missing part may very well symbolize a piece that a spear tore out of the universal heart of humanity on the Cross, but it probably symbolizes something more. It may very well mean that when God created each human heart, he kept a small sample of it in heaven, and sent the rest of it into the world, where it would each day learn the lesson that it could never be really happy, that it could never be really wholly in love, that it could never be really whole-hearted until it rested with the Risen Christ in an eternal Easter.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Manifestations of Christ)We just celebrated Charlie's funeral and burial this past weekend. His funeral was concelebrated by eight priests and a bishop and attended by more than 700 family members and friends. It was unbelievably, even overwhelmingly,beautiful. We have felt so surrounded by the love and prayers of so many (not only those in attendance, but friends from as far away as Rome and Australia) that I've been telling people that we felt like the most loved family on the planet. It is in these signs and acts of love and the consolations of a life well lived that we can truly say, in spite of the heartbreak, that God is good.
Charlie's Obituary
Just Dabbling Again
Reading (and even watching) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a piece of this puzzle, to want to write. Not only did I love the writing in The Book Thief, but it somehow made the idea of writing (more) more accessible; perhaps something about the quirky turns of phrases that were so clearly part of the author's "voice" made me feel like my own "voice" might be worth trying out again.
Here are a few quotes which are also making me think.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou
"I write to find out what I think."
Stephen King
An Old Favorite
This is Terri, Ria and Gus, from our 1999 trip to California, in which Ria had a total meltdown over having to leave Romeo behind. Romeo was a very gentle yellow labrador belonging to my brother....
A Little Shakespeare
Ria competed in a Poetry Out Loud competition (at the regional level) on Friday. This is her Sonnet:
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